Lamine Maroni

Lamine Maroni (1971-) was an al-Qaeda militant from Algeria who was sentenced to eleven years in prison by France in March 2004 for planning to attack a Jewish place of worship in Strasbourg in January 2001.

Biography
Lamine Maroni was born in Algeria in 1971, and he moved to the United Kingdom as an asylum seeker in late 1992 due to the start of the Algerian Civil War in his home country. He used forged documents with the name "Lamine Karuni" to gain political asylum, and he lived off state benefits. Maroni hosted Salim Boukari at his apartment, and the two of them became radical Islamists. On 5 December 2000, he left for Germany to make the final preparations for an attack on a Jewish synagogue in Strasbourg, France. In April 2001, he was arrested for his role in planning the attack, and a stash of TATP and Islamist documents were found at his home in Sheffield. In March 2003, he was sentenced to eleven years in prison.